Transverse sample area of two- and three-rod time domain reflectometry probes: Electrical conductivity

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2003, Pages

  Ferré, Ty P A ^a   Nissen, Henrik H ^b   Knight, John H ^c,d   Moldrup, Per ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Electrical conductivity; Monitoring; Sample area; Time domain reflectometry

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; PERMITTIVITY; REFLECTOMETERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

SENSITIVITY DISTRIBUTION; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY (TDR);

WATER RESOURCES;

DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; PROBE; REFLECTOMETRY; WATER CONTENT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 1542757466     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002WR001572     Document Type: Article

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